program, but we've got to that the fraud out of the program and we've got to make sure that the firstaregiven chance. what is more simple than just attesting that he made a good- faith good-faith effort to higher americans first? i yield the floor. mr. chairman, this is a difficult amendment. it creates a huge bureaucratic solution in search of a problem. let me say this, we have come to a careful balance on h-1b. on the one hand, we have a high- tech companies who busily want to say we should be able to hire anyone we want at any time. that is what a pure capitalist would say. we are not just talking about anyone worker at any time, we are talking about bringing and somewhat odestates. what we tried to do is find a balance. as you have seen, some people think the balance is too far in the direction of labor, so senator cruise had it is -- cruz had his amendment. , if you force people -- what we are requiring, these are highly skilled workers. .e have had a division for low skilled labor, we were tough foer. theree tougher because were americans who work outside of agriculture. we all kn